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NHL questions: Can the Rangers go all the way?
By DAN GELSTON | Associated Press – The NHL ‘s conference finals opened over the weekend without some of the top teams and big stars that highlighted the regular season. Long gone are Pittsburgh ‘s powerful point producers — Evgeni Malkin and Sidney Crosby. With them went the Presidents’ Trophy winners, the Vancouver Canucks , the No
NHL tries to restore order
Refs seem to have rediscovered the idea that sending a player to the box and leaving his team in a potentially costly penalty-kill is one of the best ways to curb on-ice mayhem.
NHL suspends Torres for indefinite period of time
The NHL suspended Phoenix forward Raffi Torres indefinitely Wednesday for knocking Chicago’s Marian Hossa out of Game 3 — and perhaps the playoffs — with a shoulder blow to the head.
2012 NHL playoffs: First-round series marked by violence, suspensions
“Just watching — and I’ve been watching a lot of the games — everything is just a little bit more intense than it normally is,” Capitals defenseman Karl Alzner said Wednesday.
Will NHL's 'Spring of Shame' continue?
Blackhawks star Marian Hossa was hospitalized by a dangerous illegal headshot of the kind the NHL has been trying to eliminate, not a fight or a clean, hard check. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images) What threatens to become the NHL’s Spring of Shame continued on Day 7 of the Stanley Cup playoffs when Marian Hossa was stretchered off in the first period of the Coyotes-Blackhawks game on Tuesday night, the result of a clearly illegal but unpenalized hit by multiple offender Raffi Torres. It was the lasting image on another compelling night of playoff hockey and it overshadowed all else, just as each daily episode of brutal play has done
Column: NHL increasingly popular, out of control
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman’s vision of a bigger footprint for hockey is finally coming into focus. But it’s not just the skyrocketing TV ratings for these playoffs in markets both traditional, like Philly, Boston and Chicago, and those traditionally slow to come around, like Los Angeles, Miami and Phoenix. It’s the tire marks on the backs of the jerseys of some of the league’s best players.
2012 NHL Western Conference Quarterfinals Playoff TV Schedule (First Round)
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2012 NHL Eastern Conference Quarterfinals Playoff TV Schedule (First Round)
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NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs First-round Schedule Set
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NHL.com: Final statistical look at the season
It’s hard to believe, but the 2011-12 regular season is over. The fourth 15-game day/night in League history sent the season into the history books with a bang — the 1,230th and final game went into overtime before the San Jose Sharks determined the final playoff pairings by beating Los Angeles 3-2. With a three-day intermission before the first puck drops on the Stanley Cup Playoffs, here’s a statistical look at the just-concluded regular season: 0 — Penalty minutes assessed in the Toronto Maple Leafs’ 6-3 win against the Edmonton Oilers on Feb